Gaza: Belgian news channels give a lesson in journalism to French channels

ByMuhammad

It took a Belgian channel to recall what journalism is. On LN24, the first continuous news channel in Belgium, the editorial director spoke to dismantle, point by point, the delusional remarks of a columnist – immediately dismissed – who had dared to deny famine in Gaza, affirmed that “Help trucks have never stopped entering”, that “the Gazaouis eat pancakes in Nutella”or that the images of the bombing would be a “” Anti-Jewish propaganda staging ”, resuming the racist theory of ” Pallywood ».

Faced with this flood of lies, the reaction was immediate, clear and worthy: “These words are factually false, heinous, and in total contradiction with our editorial line. We apologize ”,, said the director, stressing that the famine is very real, that the blockade is documented, and that the images of the humanitarian disaster are authentic.

Where French channels have transformed into arenas where chroniclers and editorialists can, day after day, rewrite reality, deny crimes, criminalize the victims and flatter the powerful without ever being contradicted, LN24 recalls obvious: information is not a competition of cynicism, nor a fair in propaganda. It is a duty. A profession. A rigor.

Worse still, in France, those who dare to defend international law, denounce war crimes or simply recall the facts, are disinvited of the plateaus, banned from the public debate, or dragged before the courts. While too many French media trivialize the indefensible and musulate the dissident voices, the Belgian journalists, them, save the honor of the profession.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.